Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Conventions
- List of abbreviations
- 1 1357–1500
- 2 1501–1509
- 3 1510–1520
- 4 1521–1528
- 5 1529–1534
- 6 1535–1541
- 7 1535–1541
- 8 1542–1546
- Endnotes to Volume I
- 9 1547–1553
- 10 1553–1557
- 11 1554–1557
- 12 1501–1557
- APPENDIXES
- A The founding of the Company, 12 July 1403
- B Edition-sheets versus ‘masterformes’
- C Importation statistics
- D Privileges, patents, and placards
- E A surfeit of Bourmans
- F John Day of Barholm
- G The sites of six printing houses
- H Maps: Fleet Street, St Paul's Churchyard, and Paternoster Row
- I Stationers’ Hall and its neighbours
- J The charter of 1557
- K Books represented in Graphs 2–3
- Endnotes to Volume 2
- Manuscripts cited
- Bibliography
- Index of STC numbers
- General index
D - Privileges, patents, and placards
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
- Conventions
- List of abbreviations
- 1 1357–1500
- 2 1501–1509
- 3 1510–1520
- 4 1521–1528
- 5 1529–1534
- 6 1535–1541
- 7 1535–1541
- 8 1542–1546
- Endnotes to Volume I
- 9 1547–1553
- 10 1553–1557
- 11 1554–1557
- 12 1501–1557
- APPENDIXES
- A The founding of the Company, 12 July 1403
- B Edition-sheets versus ‘masterformes’
- C Importation statistics
- D Privileges, patents, and placards
- E A surfeit of Bourmans
- F John Day of Barholm
- G The sites of six printing houses
- H Maps: Fleet Street, St Paul's Churchyard, and Paternoster Row
- I Stationers’ Hall and its neighbours
- J The charter of 1557
- K Books represented in Graphs 2–3
- Endnotes to Volume 2
- Manuscripts cited
- Bibliography
- Index of STC numbers
- General index
Summary
The meaning of ‘letters patent’
In her introduction to ‘A Study of English Book-Trade Privileges during the Reign of Henry VIII’, Meraud Grant Ferguson observes that
Within bibliography and book history the privileges associated with print are often referred to interchangeably as ‘privileges’ and ‘patents’. The first term embraces all royal grants of commercial protection given to members of the book trade during the early-modern period. The second term derives from the practice that later became established whereby such grants were made through the institutional mechanism of royal Letters Patent. The early grants were made in other ways and…it is misleading to apply the term ‘patent’ retrospectively to non-patent grants.
(10)Many writers have indeed assumed that early Tudor printing privileges were usually granted by the same process as the grants enrolled on the Chancery patent rolls (PRO class C 66). But the common belief that those grants are the only ones to which the word patent can be properly applied is equally mistaken.
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- The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557 , pp. 952 - 959Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013